EDITOR’S CHOICE
The Intruders by Michael Marshall, $24.95
Best seller Marshall (“The Straw Men”) outdoes his own high standards with this potent blend of suspense, paranoia and just plain creepiness. Marshall ingeniously threads (many) strands together into a provocative and supremely intelligent thriller that reads like a cross between Andrew Klavan and Philip K. Dick. | Publishers Weekly
FICTION
Still Summer by Jacquelyn Mitchard, $24.95 | Mitchard offers the harrowing tale of four women lost at sea and pitted against nature and a cohort of contemporary pirates. | Publishers Weekly
Strawberry Fields by Marina Lewycka, $24.95 | This second novel by the award-winning Lewycka (“A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian”) portrays the experience of immigrants working as unskilled laborers in modern-day England. | Library Journal
NONFICTION
The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War by David Livingstone, $24.95 | As you read this, somebody, somewhere, is planning a war. Smith’s book demands the reader’s attention. A professor of philosophy, Smith has written a stark study of human nature, examining how we are biologically wired to fight. | Publishers Weekly
The Blair Years: The Alastair Campbell Diaries by Alastair Campbell, $35 | By turns arrogant, brilliant, combative, demotic and emotional, Campbell delivers his impressions and verdicts in a wholly committed, staccato style. It is an earthy account of life in the Blair government’s 24/7 media-centric world. | Washington Post
Talking Hands by Margalit Fox, $27 | The world of sign languages and cognitive research comes to life in this story of a remote Israeli village that’s become a test bed for understanding how the human brain processes language. | Publishers Weekly
PAPERBACKS
Shriek: An Afterword by Jeff VanderMeer, $14.95 | World Fantasy Award winner VanderMeer makes a triumphant return to Ambergris, the fungus-shrouded metropolis he first chronicled in “City of Saints” and “Madmen,” in this masterful if difficult fantasy novel. | Publishers Weekly
Henry Adams and the Making of America by Garry Wills, $15.95 | Wills nimbly dusts off the nine volumes of Henry Adams’ little-studied history of the United States from 1800 to 1817 and proclaims it to be both “a prose masterpiece” and a model for how to research and write history. | Publishers Weekly
The Husband by Dean Koontz, $7.99 | Would you die for love? Would you steal? Would you kill? These are the questions posed in the masterful Dean Koontz’s, taut, electrifying thriller about an ordinary man faced with the abduction of his wife. | Barnes and Noble
COMING UP
NOVEMBER
The Quiet Girl by Peter Hoeg, $26 | The author of the internationally best selling “Smilla’s Sense of Snow” returns with the story of a circus clown who loves Bach and gambling. He becomes involved in the search for a missing girl.
OCTOBER
The Star Machine by Jeanine Basinger, $35 | Basinger gives readers a look into how, at the height of the studio system from the 1930s to the 1950s, the studios manufactured star actors and actresses.
